KPhotoBook is an easy to use, intuitive and fast application to manage and organize your photos. The main idea is to be able to annotate your photos with tags (these tags are arranged in a tree) and to refind the photos using the given tags.

Last changelog:

14 years ago

Please visit the homepage for the changelog.

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I compiled this software and works
allmost fine.
I use checkinstall to create debian packages.
Configure script das not resolv depencies
very good, so when I am installing
packages ,it's trying to overwrite system files.

And, what I forgot: you should add support for the kipi-plugins. Whith them you get a set of very interesting and good features to modify and work with pictures without anything else you have to do :-)

I don't know the other applications (kimdaba, digikam, showimg, foton, ...) very well. I'm developing KPhotoBook for fun and to learn C++. But of course KPhotoBook is better than all these other applications because it has or will have all the features I need... ;-)

I can't help you with this typeinfo problem without further informations. The application seemlessly compiles on SuSE Linux 9.1 and Gentoo. Can you tell me which files you have to patch and send me the compile error?

There is not yet a 'clean' solution for moving directories or images. Currently you must adjust the xml-file manually when you move images/directories on the filesystem. But I'll implement such functions in a future version. (Please read the Scheduler page on the KPhotoBook homepage: http://kphotobook.sourceforge.net/)

KPhotoBook is hosted on sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kphotobook/) there you can put bugs, support requests, whishes,....

I can't help you with this typeinfo problem without further informations. The application seemlessly compiles on SuSE Linux 9.1 and Gentoo. Can you tell me which files you have to patch and send me the compile error?

There is not yet a 'clean' solution for moving directories or images. Currently you must adjust the xml-file manually when you move images/directories on the filesystem. But I'll implement such functions in a future version. (Please read the Scheduler page on the KPhotoBook homepage: http://kphotobook.sourceforge.net/)

KPhotoBook is hosted on sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kphotobook/) there you can put bugs, support requests, whishes,....

Furthermore, Debian users have to run ./configure with --prefix=/usr/local (though the INSTALL file claims that this is default it is otherwise installed to /usr/local/kde which renders the program quite unusable -- missing icons etc.)

Very nice application. A suggestion: it would be great if right clicking on one or more pics would bring out a menu that let you
1/delete files (send them to trash, maybe)
2/copy or move files to other folders.

I think it's a good idea not to add to many options to modify pics (there are other programs for that) , but KPhotoBook is the perfect tool to *organize* pics, and that means deleting and or moving them. At least for me.

1. Its not very clear how to re-add a docked window if closed. I had to restart the app for this. Maybe under Settings you should have a docked-window sub menu, like the one for toolbars.
2. Would it be possible to have a read-only mode where tags cannot be changed?
3. You should add another docked window to show the currently selected image. Perhaps using an embedded image view part - maybe use konqueror's settings? Gwenview now comes with an embeddable part - and it would be great to have this embedded.

Your tags are GREAT. This is the feature I'm missing in digikam.
However digikam has the image import from my digital cameras and the plugins, the tools, such as a slideshow, image rotation and many more.

Especially the slide show and the rotation I use very often.

Can't you 2 merge???

That would be the killerapp digikam with the killerfeature tags.

While I'm downloading, you can give an image multiple tags, can't you?

A rotate function is planned. But I'm not sure if I'll implement a Slideshow. I believe Kuickshow does a rather good job for this. I'll implement several functions to export/show/open selected images in other applications.
I don't want to write a big application to do everything with it. The primary goal for KPhotoBook is to manage (tag/find) your images and not to download them from the digital camera, to E-Mail the images to all your friends or to make photo albums.